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type: software
license: MIT
title: 'biofetchR: Download, Clean, Classify, Enrich and Export Biodiversity Occurrence
  Data'
version: 0.1.0
abstract: Downloads, imports, cleans, classifies, enriches and exports biodiversity
  occurrence data, with an emphasis on reproducible Global Biodiversity Information
  Facility (GBIF) <https://api.gbif.org/v1/> workflows. The package supports batch
  occurrence downloads, taxonomic standardisation, coordinate cleaning, optional spatial
  thinning, spatial attribution and structured export of processed occurrence records
  and audit outputs. Terrestrial and freshwater workflows can join records to administrative
  units, protected areas, freshwater ecoregions, basins, rivers, lakes, reservoirs,
  wetlands and other contextual spatial overlays. Marine workflows support offshore
  and coastal records through joins to Marine Regions <https://www.marineregions.org/>
  style layers, Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) units, marine ecoregions, Large Marine
  Ecosystems and user-supplied marine overlays. The package also supports native-range
  and invasive-status evidence workflows using the World Register of Marine Species
  (WoRMS) <https://www.marinespecies.org/>, evidence derived from Standardising and
  Integrating Alien Species (SInAS) <https://zenodo.org/records/18220953>, and Global
  Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (GRIIS) <https://griis.org/> style species-country
  records. These tools are intended for biodiversity, macroecological and invasion-biology
  analyses where occurrence records need to be processed consistently, transparently
  and reproducibly.
authors:
- family-names: Stuart
  given-names: Darren
  email: dstuart04@qub.ac.uk
repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev
commit: 64ff807e6141a60037c02af9bcd85dfa5d093d60
date-released: '2026-07-21'
contact:
- family-names: Stuart
  given-names: Darren
  email: dstuart04@qub.ac.uk